/2009/02/01/empower-provinces-and-eliminate-the-menace-of-over-centralization-in-pakistan/Name of Excellence in alternative & borderless journalism.Together we stitch the world & make a difference. Leading today for tomorrow. Sindh lives hereFri, 13 Feb 2009 05:36:27 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com//2009/02/01/empower-provinces-and-eliminate-the-menace-of-over-centralization-in-pakistan/comment-page-1/#comment-4111Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:36:27 +0000/?p=4735#comment-4111No doubt the provincial autonomy was promised in 1973 constitution and it will make smaller provinces economically independent, considering our bureaucratic setup i have some doubt whether its benefit will pass on to common people.
For instance Punjab has been enjoying in getting 64% of the revenue against only 13% to 17% it gives to national exchequer, the myseries of common man in that province is not much different than that of other provinces only the bureaucracy got flourished and they are causing all sorts of hindrances in implementing the provincial autonomy.
Common people sense of sharing on federal level is through elections where their say is directly involve in making Gov’t.
With our current seat allocation in national assembly, this sense of sharing power of smaller provinces can not be achieved, even if three provinces unitedly give votes to one party and the Punjab alone go for other party the will of the smaller provinces and thier mandate can not form their gov’t of choice.(may lead to “idhar hum udhar tum”)
For the sake of the integrity of the country it is time to restore those areas with some addition of new territories which were not part of Punjab province uptill 1955 as a separate province, this will cut down the decisive majority of Punjab, the national assembly which is just a federal assembly will become a real Federal assembly of Pakistan
Best of regards
Ameed Khan
Canada

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